03/17/2006 - As with the 2006 ARC edition, it is planned to publish the proceedings of this year's workshop as a Springer Verlag LNCS series volume. The best papers will be invited to submission to a special issue of the International Journal of Electronics (Taylor & Francis Group) dedicated to ARC 2007

Introduction

Reconfigurable computing technologies offer the promise of substantial performance gains over traditional architectures via the customizing, even at runtime, the topology of the underlying architecture to match the specific needs of a given application. Contemporary configurable architectures allow for the definition of architectures with functional and storage units that match in function, bit-width and control structures the specific needs of a given computation. The flexibility enabled by reconfiguration is also seen as a basic technique for overcoming transient failures in emerging device structures.

The ARC forum therefore aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners of reconfigurable computing with an emphasis on practical applications of this promising technology.

The workshop will be held at the Portobello Hotel in Mangaratiba, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 27-29, 2007.